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I got sucked into those World's Dumbest... shows lately. Now it's World's Smartest Inventions 9, and I cannot believe these are actual items for sale on TV. Or, that there have now been at least nine shows about it.

Doing my darndest to get the DVR down to 50 percent before I leave for C6; don't know if that will happen. The 60-percentile range might be better. So I've been watching a lot of history programs I'd recorded.

Nova: Killer Subs at Pearl Harbor. An investigation if a Japanese midget sub was successful in its mission on Dec. 7. Very interesting.

Pearl Harbor: the first 24 hours. Another interesting one with more of a focus on the political reaction in Washington than to the events in Pearl Harbor.

Here's a scan of an ad in this week's newspaper, about the recent Dish dropping of channels AMC, IFC, and WE. If the picture doesn't load, if offers "some perfectly good shows you can watch now" that are comparable, in their views.